Stevan,
Thanks for analysing the survey. I hadn't read it yet and just seen a few
slides in which it was mentioned.
I only recommend looking at it. Not necessarily agreeing with its
conlusion. You think that I should?
Jan
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Subject: Re: CIBER 2005: The foxes survey the chicken-coop
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Velterop, Jan Springer UK wrote:
> Interesting new (to me) survey:
> www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/papers/dni-20050925.pdf
One at first wonders why Jan Velterop would recommend a survey asking
disinterested questions of the form:
��� Question 10
��� Consider this statement:
��� 'A major shift to open access publishing would undermine the
��� current scholarly journals system'
��� Question 10a
��� To what extent do you think this is likely to happen?
������� Very unlikely / Quite unlikely / Neither likely nor unlikely /
������� Quite likely / Very unlikely / I don't know
��� Question 10b
��� To what extent do you think this would be a good thing or a bad
thing?
������� Very bad / Quite bad / Neither good nor bad / Quite good /
������� Very good / I don't know
But as one reads further one finds the kind of question that probably
piqued Jan's own interests:
��� Question 16
��� Consider the statement:
��� 'A major shift to archiving published articles in institutional
��� repositories would undermine the current scholarly journals system'
��� Question 16a
��� To what extent do you think this is likely to happen?
������� Very unlikely / Quite unlikely / Neither likely nor unlikely /
������� Quite likely / Very unlikely / I don't know
��� Question 16b
��� To what extent do you think this would be a good thing or a bad
thing?
������� Very bad / Quite bad / Neither good nor bad / Quite good /
������� Very good / I don't know
and
��� Question 15
��� Are you happy that, under an institutional repository model,
��� readers would be able to retrieve several different versions of
��� your articles? (for example, the 'official' version of your paper on
��� the publisher's website, together with one or more pre-publication
��� versions on public web sites)?
������� Very happy / Quite happy / Not very happy / Not at all happy /
������� I don't know
Nolo contendere. I prefer surveys that do not plant words or thoughts
into the surveyee's mouths/minds...
Stevan Harnad
Received on Tue Oct 18 2005 - 15:15:42 BST